Tuesday, May 14, 2013

When the AIM issue emerged a few months ago, PAP's Dr. Teo explained that the move to have an open tender to sell the town council software was recommended by consultants. Several software companies collected the tender document but nobody responded so AIM wanting to help the town councils decided to bid for the contract.

I am aware that NCS considered bidding but in the end, decided not to do so as it was of the view that the IP rights to software developed in 2003 on soon to be replaced platforms were not valuable at all.

Another company withdrew after it checked and confirmed that it was required to ensure renewal of the NCS contract without an increase in rates. The company did not want to take on that obligation. The others may also have decided not to bid for similar reasons.In the end, only AIM submitted a bid on 20 July 2010." - Dr. Teo's statement[Link]

The Worker's Party has rejected MND findings that resident's interests have not been compromised

"On the tender, she suggested no software company here could fulfil it other than AIM, because it required all directors to have town council experience. She also said there was no reason given for the need for the one-month termination clause - and added that the MND report did not address this issue." - Report on WP's rejection of MND report[Link]

In her parliament speech yesterday, MP Sylvia Lim said:

"In this light, I cannot help but recall the Parliamentary debate in 1988 when the Town Council Bill was first presented for the Second Reading. At that debate, the then First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong justified the introduction of Town Councils as providing political stabilisers to the political system. He said there was a need to protect the public by ensuring that political parties which aspired to be government should first prove that they could run a Town Council for a constituency. He said: “If a new party finds itself unexpectedly in government, it would be like an aspiring pilot taking over an SIA jumbo jet in mid-air before he has flown solo in a Cessna. This cannot be in the interest of passengers in the jumbo… TCs are the Cessnas of our political system”. He also highlighted that some PAP MPs had expressed a fear that opposition MPs could win “some seats, prove themselves” (able to run the Town Councils) and thereafter “fan out to other constituencies in subsequent elections” (Hansard, 28 June 1988)Is this what this whole AIM episode is about – ensuring that the passengers in the Cessnas have bumpy rides or even crash land? Does the government even care about the passengers in the Cessnas, or are they simply collateral damage in a bigger political game.........In our view, the PAP TCs had unjustifiably risked a disruption to public services and that this should not be allowed to recur.I am relieved to read that the MND recognized the need to preserve continuity of public services as a paramount priority"

For a democracy to function properly, the choice of the people has to be respected. When they choose a new govt, power has to be handed over smoothly so that the people do not suffer disruption for exercising their vote. It takes at lot of arrogance for a group of leaders to believe that they are the only ones who can lead the nation. It takes some amount of hubris and elitism for them to believe that they are the only ones with the right to leadership. It takes a lot of disregard for the rights and interests of the people to want to see them suffer when they no longer want you as their leader. After getting paid the highest salaries in the world, not planning for a smooth handover should the people express a desire to be led by another party based on a different ideology is just irresponsible.
It is not just AIM but the entire civil service and SAF has to be independent from the PAP - it is not right and very dangerous for a political party to put its own power above the interests of the people....doing so undermines the stability and security of the country.

I read the ST today. I find it hilarious that Khaw defended the $2 company by saying that it has the full backing of the PAP!!!!It seems that PAP is playing politics with residents monies and interests.What has happen is that we have a dominant party for too long and the incumbent has build a layer of intricate self interest around the supposed public interests and properties that they taking care of.

The bombshell has already exploded. Now PAP is embedded with shrapnel of their own device. From what I gathered, the public, even those pro-PAP group, has already concurred that PAP is playing a dangerous political game and they will take that into consideration at the ballot box come 2016. Let's move on.

Mr. Khaw still hasn't answered the question. Who in the right mind would ask for a 1 month automatic termination clause upon change in political party? I think it is obvious, that clause was intended to sabotage a new political party. And the requirement for ALL DIRECTORS to have experience in town council, isn't it obvious only 1 company, i.e. AIM satisfy that requirement? And AIM does not even have proper employees, why would you sell your system to be maintained by a company with no people or experience? Isn't it obvious?

KBW attacked Sylvia and insulted Singaporeans, "Many of us in this House have been serving Singaporeans for decades, long before she entered this House. Please, don’t behave as if you are the only patriot in this House."

PLEASE. Mr Khaw Boon Wan. You are PAID MILLIONS, a pay you will never be able to get anywhere else in the world, to do your job. Don't talk like you have been serving Singaporeans with all your sweat with no rewards.

"And the requirement for ALL DIRECTORS to have experience in town council, isn't it obvious only 1 company, i.e. AIM satisfy that requirement? And AIM does not even have proper employees, why would you sell your system to be maintained by a company with no people or experience? Isn't it obvious?"Anon 14/5/13 10:48

"It takes at lot of arrogance for a group of leaders to believe that they are the only ones who can lead the nation. It takes some amount of hubris and elitism for them to believe that they are the only ones with the right to leadership."

My relatives across the Causeway told me they are sick of the rampant corruption of the Incument and their cronies. Tak boeh tahan any more & they decided to vote for opposition. Never mind they lost, they will try again.

Similarly I am sick of our PAP arrogance. This kind of episode is proof that the last GE apology was a faked one to begin with. Now that it is exposed to be a lie, do you still want to support a party of liars ?

As an Aljunied GRC resident all I can say is that I'M NEVER AGAIN GOING TO VOTE FOR THE PAP after I have seen how they tried to take the residents and the constituency down with them after we told clearly in GE 2011 we wanted WP and not them anymore.

Hello million dollars minister, kindly don't continue insult daft singaporean intelligence. My aljunied grc mp are asking pertinent questions all behalf of Singaporeans.If you think that your ministry review is half truth, why not meet us the true patriots in aljunied, at one of your PA town hall meeting, for us to ask you personally. At the same time feel the ground on all aljunied grc, maybe we welcome you to contest in aljunied grc during the next election.

Singapore is politically different! Just as Singaporeans respect and abide by the rules of engagements, so should foreigners. Foreigners should be mindful of the political culture, norms and mores in Singapore, and should act in consonance with Singapore’s laws rather than try to impose confrontational political culture and norms that are alien to our society.

With Singapore much reserves from indirect taxes, Singapore chances to produces world beating products like Rolex, Samsung, Ikea or Apple is higher then many countries.

Presently Singapore need to find ways to increase the tourism yield, which improve Singapore standard, so tourists willing to spend more in SIngapore, it take a bit longer time to produce some world beating companies??

"It has been speculated that Ho Peng Kee is the younger brother of Ho Ching.

Both Ho Peng Kee and Ho Ching studied at National Junior College.Ho Ching is 1 year older than Ho Peng Kee.

"Even her age is considered off limits. A Temasek spokesman was unwilling to reveal her age or date of birth, although a Temasek bond document in 2005 said she was 52." Ho Peng Kee's birthdate is 09.05.1954.I don't understand why all the secrecy. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/27/business/temasek.php http://www.parliament.gov.sg/AboutUs/Org-MP-CV-HoPengKee.htm

Ho Ching was married to LHL in 1985, subsequently Ho Peng Kee stood for elections in 1991 as MP for Sembawang.

In 1993, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Law and Ministry of Home Affairs)His portfolio has never been re-shuffled, he is now the Senior Minister of State (Ministry of Law and Ministry of Home Affairs)." -maurizio13,03 Mar `08.

— —"Associate Professor HO Peng Kee was a good MP who had worked hard for 10 years, but he was a Cantonese and a strong Christian,http://www.getforme.com/community_currentissues_others_NeeSoonEastdonationsfirstissue.htm

It is not about whether they are ready. It is about people choice. If they want WP to be government, make sure they do not split the votes like what happened in the president election and the malaysisa recent election. Do not fall into the trap of pap. this is why they asked that question to wp.

This bullshit Khaw self-declared himself a Patriot. Did he or his boss or his boss father die for singapore or even serve NS? He thought it is just about naming a cow in a farm. He thought he is above the justice system. THe people will be the one who will declared whether he is a patriot or a parrot.

"So many of the comments to this letter exhort the letter writer to stick around in Singapore and work towards changing things for the better. When I was 20, I also thought the same thing–one day there will be a groundswell of change, one day grips will be loosened and there will be a chance to breathe. But now I understand that was all delusion. One step forward, two steps back. The bruising games. I say to the writer now, please, if you have the chance, just go. Don’t let anyone try to emotionally blackmail you to stay around–because of their fears that your leaving will become an indictment of *them*. Don’t let Singapore leech you dry and yet call *you* the parasitic ingrate. Don’t let Singapore toy with your hopes. Don’t let Singapore murder your dreams. Just go. With the blessedness of the less deceived."

There are just too many bad memories in Singapore today. Too many....I just had to leave it.

PETALING JAYA — Malaysia’s new Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (picture) has told Malaysians who are dissatisfied with its political system after the general election — which handed victory to the long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition — to migrate to other countries, as those who are loyal would accept the rule of law.

Senior Counsel N. Sreenivasan told City News that there are two key things to note: one, that the prosecution wants to maintain that the use of the building fund for the Crossover Project was unauthorized, but “as my learned friend Edwin Tong said in open court, the use was not unauthorized. But I won’t comment as it’s an issue before the court.”The second key thing to bear in mind is fourfold: “The accused had no wrongful gain; there was no unlawful loss; the Church made good and there has been no dishonesty.”

There is no greater evil than evil perpetuated by righteous and honest people

"Corruption is what happens when someone in power puts their own personal gain before the interest of the people they represent.

So it's the result of greed?Yes. A leader sacrifices moral integrity for the sake of money or power. Entire star systems have collapsed into chaos. A revolution because their greedy politicians got caught up in a cycle of bribery and blackmail while their people suffered.

Does that mean most government officials are corrupt?Well, no. But the point is that temptation is always there. And citizens must be vigilant so corruption can't take root. The deadliest enemies of a society dwell within its borders. And from these internal threats the people need to be protected

But if you don't trust your leaders, isn't that treason?It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders. To keep them honest and hold them accountable if they are not.

How do you do that?By exposing corrupt officials for what they are. Lasting change can only come from within."Ashoka TanoStar Wars Clone Wars, Season 3, Episode 6, 3:06-4:13 minutes

Not really corruption but encourages the spirit of corruption. These leaders are mostly law abiding but also mostly stupid or idiots.So you are ruled basically by highly educated idiots. Idiocy and stupidity breed idiots and idiots can act corruptly without them knowing because they are idiots who think they are in control.

"As ministers, Wahid and Low will now draw a minimum annual salary of RM179,642.40 (or RM14,970.20 a month) and also RM49,353.48 (or RM4,112.79 a month) each as senators."http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/20/nation/13127395&sec=nation

Wah Lau eh, Matland ministers pay lagi low man!

Can't even compare to Sinkieland's middle level civil servants, where some are even in their 20s only!

What are the benefits of having more and more people resulting in less and less space, if you are not a business mogul or politician banking on the gdp's results. More importantly, what is the point of voting for this party if all they do is ram their policies and agendas at lightning speed irregardless what you'd ever think?

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What is sad about the CHC saga, and society as a whole, is that honest people( not only the character of the leadership is questionable, the followers, the defense and even the general public) are not really honest, decent people(especially moralistic people) are not really decent and white not really white.

They can't distinguish trash at all. The trash you block may not be trash at all but the trash you pass is the kind of trash that pollutes and poison society. Just take a good look at Singapore bloggersphere. They are as dictatorial as the government they criticize. 90% bloggers practice imposing their values religiously on others blindly(what hope do you have? - zilch!). They cant distinguish a ghetto FUCK YOU from aNUS FUCK YOU because the latter is so well written or proper - complied with all aNUS laws.

Moral of the story? A geyland hooker has more redeeming qualities than your God fearing preacher.

//Just to share my 3 month old baby has just gone for her vaccination at the polyclinic this morning, 2 jabs and 1 oral to be exact, and it cost us $331! My phillippino maid said hers is free...*sigh*//

ssshhhhhhh.

wait they say no free lunch.

wait they say they making loss.

wait they say free market forces.

wait they say it is already subsidized and it is very affordable (that is why you could still able to pay it) - reinforcing logic. and if you can't pay it, wait they say you are lazy and not hardworking and not smart enough to earn enough to pay such services for your own children or you were not responsible for not planning such potential costs when giving birth to baby or babies for some other people.

//The bruising games. I say to the writer now, please, if you have the chance, just go. Don’t let anyone try to emotionally blackmail you to stay around–because of their fears that your leaving will become an indictment of *them*.//

sure. go to other places if you need to in order to earn a living like a lot of PRs who are here to work. but hold on to your citizenship and remember what to do when you vote the next round or the next thereafter.

Read the below news(today) and tell me whether your leaders are fucking ideas or not

SINGAPORE: 165 community disputes have gone through mediation at the Community Mediation Centre between January and April 2013.

But the real concern is disputes involving parties who are unwilling to sit down and talk.

The authorities are considering mandatory mediation for such cases. According to some experts, this will be useful but difficult to enforce.

Majority of community disputes are between HDB dwellers. Disputes arise from issues such as corridor obstruction, noise and high-rise littering.

Yew Tee, located in the northwest of Singapore, is one of the country's largest towns. With more than 82,000 residents, it has seen 20 to 30 community disputes in the last two years.

Most of them were settled after grassroots leaders stepped in.

In one case, neighbours fought over the placement of potted plants along their corridor.

Alex Yam, MP for Choa Chu Kang GRC, said: "We found out that they lived together for 13 years, but yet didn't know each other's names. So we started afresh... I think we managed to resolve that quite simply."

Tougher cases are referred to the Community Mediation Centre, which has a pool of 145 trained volunteer mediators. However, some disputes languish.

Mr Yam said: "Mediation is voluntary, so as long as one party doesn't want to come to the table, we're stuck. Very often it's one party who says ‘I don't want to be involved, I don't see anything I'm doing is wrong’. A lot of people see mediation as going to court, but it's not. It's an opportunity for us to resolve the issue before we go into the court process."

Associate Professor Lim Lan Yuan, senior master mediator from the Community Mediation Centre, said: "One advantage where we make it mandatory for attendance is that the other party has to come in, because we cannot mediate with just one party. The one who complains will come anyway, but the one being complained about, the respondent, may not come."

The alternative to mediation is bringing the dispute to court, but results are often far from satisfactory.

"By the time you enter the court system, that's when all possibility of an amicable relationship breaks down," said Mr Yam. "There's no way you can come back to living together and starting the relationship over again."

"The court has to decide a winner and a loser," said Wendell Wong, director of dispute resolution at Drew & Napier. "That doesn't really solve the underlying issues in the long term. In mediation, you may get outcomes that allow parties not to lose face.”

Experts said enforcing mandatory mediation will be tricky, as the threat of punishment can worsen a conflict. Some suggest "soft" sanctions.

Mr Wong said: "This may take the form of any sort of sanctions and punishments within the community, (such as) having to volunteer your time, having to serve the community in meaningful ways, to reflect the community's acceptance or non-acceptance of your behaviour in not complying with, not attending mediation. We have to be creative."

Mediated disputes have a good chance of resolution. 70 per cent of those that go through the Community Mediation Centre are settled.

In reference to the report, “Mediation could be mandatory for community disputes” (May 13), I would ask if it is wise to make mediation mandatory for all community disputes.

As an analogy, imagine if several pupils report a school bully for terrorising them. The school’s disciplinary committee investigates and then brings in both the bully and his victims for mediation.

Guidelines for behaviour are drawn. If either party flouts these, they would be called in for more mediation and further advised until the conflict is resolved.

If the Government were to make mediation mandatory in dealing with community disputes, the scenario could be similar.

But why should a clear case of bullying be reduced to a “dispute” that a victim must mediate with the bully?

A few real-life cases of callous, stubborn wrongdoers would show the inappropriateness of mandatory mediation.

It could worsen matters, particularly when the wrongdoers are contemptuous of their affected neighbours, such as a family who endures indiscriminate dripping laundry and mops every day or loud mahjong sessions that go on in the wee hours weekly.

Or when wrongdoers let their dogs bark and howl every day despite intervention from the relevant authorities, or drag their furniture in the wee hours, with knocking accompanied by loud footsteps.

What is needed is for the authorities to do investigations, issue warnings to errant parties and mete out punishments if repeated warnings fall on deaf ears. Instead of getting parties to sit down to make peace, tough counselling and education must be provided for the recalcitrant.

Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong noted that different communities and residents should develop “their own social norms”. I disagree.

It is unthinkable that there may be a set of Buangkok norms and a set of Pasir Ris norms, implying that laws differ from community to community. There would be no national cohesion.

Tolerance seems to be the highest virtue in societies, including Singapore, that consider themselves democratic and liberal. However, to uphold it blindly is to do injustice to people who suffer regularly from the inconsiderate, sometimes vicious, acts of their neighbours.

In the name of protecting vulnerable residents, let us not sweep their intolerance aside as a dirty word. It is not.

What for opposition? Collect MP salary ..happy happy...I have no ambition of being the next PM...opposition leader said.....first world parliament crap....let the monkey be PM...I eat peanuts can liao...tio Bo?

When you need the law to fucking show that it got pricks to fucking skin the lawbreaking neighbor... the fucking leaders wrap a pink condom over the legal dickhead by waxing lyrical about tolerance and fucking spineless hypocritical and god fucking mediation at the expense of the suffering law abiding citizen who is at the mercy of their idiotic lawless neighbors whom they can't chop their fucking heads off because the fucking laws ...created by fucking leaders...who forbid that they act with common sense so their fucking neighbors can enjoy fucking law abiding citizens while the fucking leaders ponder over the complexities of determining whether the fucking lawless neighbor is lawless or not ... and why is that so?.... because these fucking heck care lazy fucking leaders with fucking jello brains who are basically useless overrated elites are only good at licking their bosses lollipop and talking chee bay to the good for nothing fucking press to give an appearance that they are worth their millions ....however....when it is not the business of the law to step into someone's bedroom when people are fucking toilet rolls...they fucking stick your dirty noses into other people's backside and goreng goreng politics of patriotism to further their career in the political world of plundering the masses of idiotic and brainless boot suckers educated by our finest mental religious institutions

Fuck you and go and jump off MBS building without a parachute you mother fucker

How many millions of our money spent for PAP benefit? ask old guy Lee Kuan yew and “What do you think” (Big nose TCH) he will reply us. Answer will be, “We made the money by simply bringing in lots of foreigners and FTs, so why are you asking?”!Anything goes by way of this LKYism rudimentary in PAP void of moral & ethice principles. His means justifies to end result LKYism desires and so it must be right and good for everyone!

The reasons the Nordic type of social welfare success it free people other worry like health care, education, jobless & old age retirement and concentrate on taking risk, like a coalition of govt, each party propose their ideas because majority of the people are highly educated with free educations they know what to do. Any party can take over and run the govt. Because majority are highly educated and almost the same standard, so reduced the burden on only one party? The education the population the less unequality?

Nafeesa Docura"Why on earth should investor's worries TAKE PRECEDENCE over those who NEED A HOME? That's my biggest beef with his manner of thinking. Investors who were greedy and hoped to live comfortably on OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, keeping those people from being able to enter the housing market themselves should be prepared to take a loss when society rectifies the wrong done to those people. Even if they sell at a 30% price drop from current prices, the market has appreciated so much that it is not likely that they would make much of a loss. Prices have nearly doubled in the last 4 years. Their retirement nest eggs would be mostly intact. Have a care for the people who need homes. People, not family units. Else, you just tell your own CITIZENS that you don't give a crap about them, and they will just pack up and leave.'

that's the kind of hypocritical society a "successful nation" has become

Do you want to hear anothe pot calling the kettle black societal behaviour? 90% singaporean bloggers or websites practice censoring or imposing restrictions and they are telling the government to go f u c k off. Joke right?If we are allowed to call the government idiot, we should be able to call you names.

WP breached tender rules right after they attained office but failing to call a tender and later awarding a town council tender to a company operated by their supporters. Why aren't anyone chasing them about it? Its fine for WP to break the law?

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